Staff, Product Manager

Posted:
9/30/2024, 4:41:13 PM

Location(s):
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India ⋅ Indiana, United States ⋅ Indianapolis, Indiana, United States ⋅ Karnataka, India

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Product

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

Position Summary...

Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and ensuring diversity awareness. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.

What you'll do...

About Team:

  • This role is part of the Walmart Product team (see description below) with a specific focus on building products for Walmart e-commerce. Your mission is to drive innovation in Walmart Marketplace.

  • As a Staff Product Manager on the team, you will collaborate with multiple functions including engineering, business and Sellers operations across geographies. You will work closely with key stakeholders on the merchandising side and drive the vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution product strategy.

  • You will work on building the next generation marketplace platform serving all Walmart e-commerce across US and beyond. The goal would be to study and drive Seller productivity, Improve experience & usability with adoption of product offerings.

What you'll do

  • Define and lead the vision and strategy for Walmart Seller Mobile app, provide product thought leadership in identifying critical customer requirements, understand business goals, define product end state, and work with development teams in designing optimal experience

  • Work closely with architects and engineers to design scalable solutions while ensuring a frictionless user experience

  • Drive the product strategy and vision, focusing on delivering an excellent user experience.

  • Conduct extensive user research to understand customer needs, behaviours, and motivations.

  • Collaborate with the product team to define product requirements and specifications.

  • Develop and manage user experience roadmap, including prioritizing features and product enhancements based on customer feedback and market trends.

  • Coordinate with the design and development teams to ensure that product designs are user-centric and technically feasible.

  • Run usability tests and perform data analysis to evaluate the product's performance and identify areas for improvement.

  • Define and monitor key performance indicators to track and optimize product performance.

  • Communicate effectively with stakeholders about the product's progress, challenges, and successes.

  • Work closely with the different business offering teams to understand the requirements, priorities, and drive towards a common goal

  • Develop external & internal market analysis and fitment

  • Do in-depth Build, buy, partner analysis, monetization, open-sourcing, & adoption strategies

  • Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects

  • Ensures business needs are being met

  • Manage & drive partner roadmap relationships

  • Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity

  • Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates

  • Supports product implementation and deployment

What You will Bring

  • Some Retail/e-commerce domain knowledge

  • Proven experience with Mobile app based products as a Product Manager

  • Ability to organize and prioritize work, establish realistic goals and deadlines and manage changing priorities

  • Proficient in design software (e.g. UXPin, Balsamiq) and product management tools.

  • Ability to achieve goals in an innovative environment and to evolve product strategy based on research, data, and industry trends

  • Excellent communication skills

  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills

  • Ability to analysis products and process drive improvements aligned with strategic goals

  • Creative/Strategic thinking skills

  • Ability to work independently and manage multiple product areas and initiatives

  • Build strong business partnership with key stakeholders

  • Ability to explain the business and technical value of a technical offering to an audience mix of technical and non-technical customer representatives

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Good academic record with Computer Science or Engineering background; prefer a top tier MBA

  • 10+ years of Industry experience, focused on solving data & analytics challenges with minimum 4 years of product management experience; Product management experience of building mobile apps is mandatory. Prefer some e-commerce or retail experience

  • E-Commerce software evangelist

  • Strong product management experience in managing customer engagement platforms, proven experience in building data products to solve critical business problems considering user at the center stage

  • Must have experience working with and influencing partner roadmap

  • Solid understanding of how to build & market platform solutions in cloud

  • Proven experience leading products from concept through sales or user adoption

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

  • Good experience of working with globally distributed teams in a collaborative and productive manner

About Walmart Global Tech

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Flexible, hybrid work:
We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits:
Benefits Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.
 

Equal Opportunity Employer:
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

    Minimum Qualifications...

    Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

    Minimum Qualifications:Bachelor of Science and 5 years' product management experience OR Master of Science and 2 years' product management experience.

    Preferred Qualifications...

    Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

    Primary Location...

    G, 1, 3, 4, 5 Floor, Building 11, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India